From ted.pome at gmail.com Fri Feb 3 07:14:06 2023 From: ted.pome at gmail.com (Ted Pomeroy) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 08:14:06 -0700 Subject: [nmglug] Meeting notes from 02/02/23 Message-ID: NMGLUGers, We had a good meeting with 5 in attendance via jitsy. In no particular order I will jive some notes: Converting MacBks: we noted this can be frustrating. I have worked with the desktop products, but not the laptops. I found Rods Books most helpful https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ is the link to the rEFInd pages. This is Rod's boot manager (not loader) that helps to allow booting of external media. the use of blacklists is a problem built into the products in question. At this point I have given up on doing any attempts in this area. The proprietary parts and bridges built to frustrate the repair and conversions leave little leeway for progress. Buying a laptop at a good price: I purchased a laptop for under $100 on Ebay. My process is to think about repair and use. I wanted a multi-core, multi-thread processor, at least 4 GB ram and an accessible HDD. I found a refurbished Dell Latitude and it was delivered with 8 GB ram and a slightly newer version than listed. No webcam, hefty at about 5 lbs., but portable around my apartment or to a cafe. Others recommended an Asus VivoBook 14"; a currently available machine at retail outlets. I confess, my personal approach has been to rehab machines 10-5 yrs old for price reasons. I have also helped others repair/extend life of their hardware on a budget. Several seniors are using Ubuntu or LinuxMint with my help and occasional interventions. Thunderbird Mail Reader: Mark suggested that lack of support and general cumbersome settings makes most mail readers difficult for basic users. I agree, but I have one user who prefers Thunderbird to web/browser login to mail. I did not mention it but too many older users rely on the computer to save passwords, so they can forget them. Difficulties do arise from this. As a somewhat promiscuous user of various hardware I have noticed that my web-based email will alert me when I log in from a new machine or visit someone and use an alternate OS. They certainly are keeping track of these details and letting me know. On February 16 the plan is to meet at Violet Crown in Santa Fe. At least two of those present agreed to be there. Mark your calendar for this date if you can attend. In-person meetings are more fun. Thank you, Ted P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at galassi.org Thu Feb 16 10:35:18 2023 From: mark at galassi.org (Mark Galassi) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:35:18 -0700 Subject: [nmglug] this evening in person at Violet Crown! Message-ID: <87lekx7921.fsf@galassi.org> Dear nmglugers, This evening I'm planning on showing up in person at Violet Crown; I look forward to seeing you! I'll also connect to the videocon chat from there. From rock_cogar at yahoo.com Thu Feb 16 11:29:40 2023 From: rock_cogar at yahoo.com (rock cogar) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [nmglug] this evening in person at Violet Crown! In-Reply-To: <87lekx7921.fsf@galassi.org> References: <87lekx7921.fsf@galassi.org> Message-ID: <1641612072.1118639.1676575780187@mail.yahoo.com> Hello All, I too, plan to attend. I assume one can get a sandwich right there at?Violet Crown? I will bring an old i5 laptop with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE) Installed to show.? It worked so well and so completely that I replaced KDE Neon on my fastest (i7 ASUS ROG Nvidia equipped) laptop with?OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE). Testing that install with?UNIGINE Valley video benchmark showed the fastest results (64 FPS) I have seen on any machine. ThanksRock CogarCorrales, NM On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 11:37:40 AM MST, Mark Galassi wrote: Dear nmglugers, This evening I'm planning on showing up in person at Violet Crown; I look forward to seeing you!? I'll also connect to the videocon chat from there. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list nmglug at lists.nmglug.org http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at galassi.org Thu Feb 16 11:37:00 2023 From: mark at galassi.org (Mark Galassi) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 12:37:00 -0700 Subject: [nmglug] this evening in person at Violet Crown! In-Reply-To: <1641612072.1118639.1676575780187@mail.yahoo.com> References: <87lekx7921.fsf@galassi.org> <1641612072.1118639.1676575780187@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87h6vl7677.fsf@galassi.org> > I assume one can get a sandwich right there at?Violet Crown? They have a kitchen and serve food. From ted.pome at gmail.com Thu Feb 16 12:15:01 2023 From: ted.pome at gmail.com (Ted Pomeroy) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:15:01 -0700 Subject: [nmglug] this evening in person at Violet Crown! In-Reply-To: <87h6vl7677.fsf@galassi.org> References: <87lekx7921.fsf@galassi.org> <1641612072.1118639.1676575780187@mail.yahoo.com> <87h6vl7677.fsf@galassi.org> Message-ID: Mark, Yes, food is served. I enjoyed the chicken fajitas last time I went. I think you can see the menu on their website. Food and beverages are available. It is way to cold for me to venture out, so I will connect via the video chat from home. Stay warm and I do hope the in-person crowd keeps growing. Thank you, Ted P On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:38 PM Mark Galassi wrote: > > > I assume one can get a sandwich right there at Violet Crown? > > They have a kitchen and serve food. > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > nmglug at lists.nmglug.org > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at galassi.org Thu Feb 16 13:38:32 2023 From: mark at galassi.org (Mark Galassi) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:38:32 -0700 Subject: [nmglug] applications open for the Institute, deeply rooted in software freedom Message-ID: <87r0up5m07.fsf@galassi.org> Dear nmglugers, This is particularly of interest to us: the Institute for Computing in Research, and the pipeline leading up to it, teach students to do research using free/open-source software tools. TL;DR - please encourage any students you know to apply for summer research at: https://computinginresearch.org/summer-research-internship-program-2023/ (I am also attaching a flyer) Slightly longer story: The Institute for Computing in Research pays high school students (finishing 10th, 11th, 12th grade) to do research in the summer. We pair them with an active researcher in their field of interest, and purchase equipment that they then keep. We have opened up applications for summer 2023, and we hope you can urge your motivated students to apply. We seek students with diverse interests: humanities, social science, science, the arts, ..., and we have mentors who work in all those areas. We hope you can pass the link and flyer for the summer 2022 internship to your students and look forward to receiving their applications! Full information is at: https://computinginresearch.org/ A final note: we also offer the Research Skills Academy, focused on the non-computational and non-quantitative aspects of research. We would love to have your students join us there: https://computinginresearch.org/research-skills-academy/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: computinginresearch-flyer-2023.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1427169 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mark at galassi.org Thu Feb 16 13:40:18 2023 From: mark at galassi.org (Mark Galassi) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:40:18 -0700 Subject: [nmglug] this evening in person at Violet Crown! In-Reply-To: <1641612072.1118639.1676575780187@mail.yahoo.com> References: <87lekx7921.fsf@galassi.org> <1641612072.1118639.1676575780187@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <87o7pt5lx9.fsf@galassi.org> > I too, plan to attend. PS: I might be a bit after 5:30pm as I will be proctoring a chess game that might go a bit longer. Hold a table near electrical outlets!